News & Blog

Well, here we are, well into the summer months (although the weather here in the UK is more like September than July) and still only feeling our way out of the full lock-down that has impacted most countries around the world. In April, the BALANCE office was forced to close completely, with Teressa and I furloughed in an attempt to wait-out the complete stopping of income with most horse owners around the world being forced to stop riding.   The bills for the company running costs still had to be paid during...

During a recent session of tidying my office and looking through old paperwork and files, I made the mistake of looking through some old diaries that Carol and I used to use before the days of iCal. Of course, this is a dangerous thing to do, because inevitably, we end up spending the time allocated to the tidying to reminiscing and going over historical documents! The diaries I found go back to 1993 and there are notes in them that show appointments we had with various saddle makers and influential people in the saddle...

Those of you who have been using our online shop to buy BALANCE products had to register to be able to use the shop and as the site got older this whole process became very irritating and long-winded. Sorry about that and thank you to those of you who battled through the procedure and managed to use the shop! The new shop does not require you to register and seems a lot easier to navigate and use. You will see that you still have the option to use a credit/debit card...